Project officers will deliver a range of learning packages, designed to help frontline health practitioners reduce health inequalities for black and minority ethnic communities.

All learning programmes build on the evidence-based Better Health briefing papers, providing good practice examples and signposting to useful resources in the field. By using this evidence to inform policy and practice, health practitioners can embed the promotion of race equality in their everyday work.

Learning packages

Ethnic monitoring: Demanding data

Why is ethnic monitoring so important? Why do we need data? What is it used for? This learning package helps health practitioners to embed better practice into their work through ethnic monitoring, emphasising the value of data collection and its importance for the promotion of race equality.

Aims and objectives

This learning package aims to provide delegates with:

• a better understanding of the need for data collection and the connection between ethnic monitoring and progressive service delivery
• a critical understanding of the use of data in health care settings to improve health outcomes for black and minority ethnic users and communities.

Ethnic inequalities in health: Exploring the evidence

This learning package introduces participants to evidence relating to black and minority ethnic communities and their health. It will help participants to examine the causes of inequality and seek better practice which will help them to embed race equality in their day-to-day work.

Aims

This learning package aims to provide delegates with the ability to:

• critically engage with evidence on ethnic inequalities
• use this evidence to implement better practice and improve health outcomes for black and minority ethnic service users and communities.

Black and minority ethnic health inequalities: Engagement

This learning package introduces health professionals to methods and approaches for engagement with black and minority ethnic service users. It encourages sensitive consultation with black and minority ethnic service users, enabling better communication and service delivery.

Aims

This learning package will facilitate dialogue on methods to:

• improve health outcomes for black and minority ethnic service users and communities
• engage black and minority ethnic communities from a national and local perspective
• overcome and remove barriers to effective consultation, engagement and participation
• ensure effective community engagement at all levels.

Learning style

The course trainers will:

• deliver interactive workshops that encourage participation
• use a range of learning methods to help practitioners embed better practice
• build on participants’ existing skills and experience
• provide opportunities for participants to develop an individual action plan
• provide resources/tools and using signposting to continue learning.

These packages will be delivered in locations across the UK during spring 2011.

See the events pages for Innovations training dates.